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Bunjil Park Aboriginal Education & Cultural Centre
Coolamon Dish, This item is made by taking bark from the tree, soaking it to make it pliable then shaping into a curve then direid slowly over heat to set the shape
... Aboriginal wooden implements.... This is a women s implement. Coolamon dish Aboriginal wooden implements ...This type of implement is used to gather food or if large enough, to carry a baby. The size of this item suggested it could have been used for either purpose. This is a women s implement.A bowl shaped dish, decorated with a witchety grub design.Witchety grub motive characteristic of the Central Desert tribes.coolamon dish, aboriginal wooden implements, central desert tribes. -
Phillip Island and District Historical Society Inc.
Dish, wooden, 1900 circa (Approximate)
"Aboriginal bark dish - used to get ashes to rub on new born babies to harden their skin. Brought from McCrays Station, Murchison in Western Australia by my brother Joe, early this century 1904"Wooden dish, scoop shape, no design or colouring, rough rim.australian aboriginal history, aboriginal artifact, domestic implement, aboriginal bark dish -
Phillip Island and District Historical Society Inc.
Leangle - hooked beaked club, 1800 approximate
... wooden implement, sharp down two edges with a longer rounded ...Used from 1842 by aboriginal "Peter" - employed by Mr. McHaffie.Angled wooden implement, sharp down two edges with a longer rounded handle and ornamental butt.local aboriginal history, aboriginal artifact, wooden tool, wooden implement, mrs hardy -
Phillip Island and District Historical Society Inc.
Boomerang, 1800 Approximate
... history aboriginal artifact wooden tool wooden implement mrs hardy ...Used from 1842 by aboriginal "Peter" - employed by Mrs McHaffieAngled wooden impliment - flat on two faces, sharpened at the edges.australian aboriginal history, aboriginal artifact, wooden tool, wooden implement, mrs hardy -
Phillip Island and District Historical Society Inc.
Boomerang, 1800's approx
... aboriginal artifact wooden tool wooden implement mrs hardy ...used from 1842 by aboriginal "Peter" employed by Mrs McHaffieAngled Wooden Implement - flat on two faces. Sharpened at the edges.local aboriginal history, aboriginal artifact, wooden tool, wooden implement, mrs hardy -
Orbost & District Historical Society
woomera
A woomera is a wooden Australian Aboriginal spear-throwing device . It is an extension of the human arm that enables a spear to travel at a greater speed and force than possible with the unaided arm.The necessary tools and equipment for hunting, fishing and warfare were one of the very few items that Aboriginals carried with them from place to place. Most were used for a multiplicity of purposes. Because many were made from raw natural materials, such as wood, generally only partial remains are found today. This woomera is an example of an implement used by early Indigenous people.A flat hand-made dish like wooden spear thrower with curved edges. It has a small spike tied at one end and hardened black gum at the other.woomera aboriginal hunting spear-thrower -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Aldo Massola, The Aborigines of south-eastern Australia : as they were, 1971
Contents: p.1-3; Origins, arrival in Australia; p.4-9; How they lived - camp sites, dating (including carbon dating); p.10-27; Physical appearance, skin colour, hair, clothing, body ornaments, cicatrization; exchange system, distribution of food, marriage &? sexual relations; the tribe - structure, relationship to land, territory, gives map showing locations of tribes, New South Wales, Victoria &? eastern South Australia, leadership, government, division of labour, status of women, estimated population at white settlement, density of population (Victoria); p.28-31; Language - names &? naming, reproduces Wembawemba vocabulary, notes use of secret languages, gives 12 rules for pronounciation; p.32-53; Religion, spirit beliefs, totemism, moieties, phratries, marriage rules; mythology, gives eaglehawk &? crow myth from Lake Victoria &? other myths illustrating origins of fire &? natural rock formations, mythical beasts (Bunyip, Mindie), stellar beliefs; magic, medicine men, powers, native remedies for sickness, describes ceremony held in Melbourne, 1847 to avert evil, sorcery, pointing bone, love magic, rain makers; messengers, appearance, etiquette, message sticks; p.54-71; Rock art, motifs, colours, decorative art, engraving of utensils, rock engravings, manufacture &? use of pigments, engraving techniques; trade system, objects bartered, meeting places for trade (Victoria), map shows possible routes (south east Australia); corroborees, purpose, body ornaments &? decorations, musical instruments; p.72-93; Ceremonial life, marriage, punishment for infidelity, birth, childhood, games &? amusements, initiation, etiquette of visiting tribes, details of ceremony, womens role, earth figures &? ground designs, bull roarers, female puberty ceremonies; p.94-133; Shelters, fire making, cooking, construction of canoes, wooden implements, use of reeds, animal skins &? sinews, shells; stone tools, cylindro conical stones, scrapers, knives &? microliths; hunting weapons, spear, other methods pits, nets; fishing methods &? spears, traps; food sharing, womens responsibilities for collecting, digging stick, cooking methods, insect foods, plant foods, water resources; manufacture &? use of spears, spear throwers, shields, clubs, boomerangs; inter- &? intratribal fighting; p.134-147; Death, disposal of body - eating of the dead, burial, cremation, platform exposure, dendroglyphs (N.S.W.), Aboriginal burial grounds (Darling &? Murray Rivers), mourning, widowhood, kopi caps (N.S.W.), causes of death, inquest ceremonies, revenge expedition, after death beliefs; p.148-157; The end of the tribes white settlement &? its impact on Aboriginal life, friction between natives &? settlers, establishment of Protectorates; copiously illustrated throughout.maps, b&w illustrations, b&w photographswemba wemba, murray river, darling river, lake victoria